Tucson McDonalds Now has Free WiFi

January 24, 2010

It is free! Not real Fast! But Free!

I knew it was coming. I wondered when would be the first day I dragged took the laptop with me on my daily run to McDs. Today is the day.

Around our house we call Sunday, “Fat Paper” day. The days of the week tend to run together in this business where there is no clearly delineated “weekend”. But every 7 days a really big newspaper lands in the driveway. That’s what today is, “Fat Paper Day”.

I decided after a quick read of the paper I would see how the connection speed and setup went for the free WiFi. It wasn’t to bad. It took about 4 minutes from the time I clicked on the browser for it to get me to the connections screen where i clicked I agreed to the terms of service and I was able to navigate to the home page.

A quick snap with the berry of the wifi poster in the window and sent that to myself by email. That arrived while I was getting into the blog and starting this post.

Did a quick crop of the image and resize; then import into the post. So far so good.

Observations on the Free Wifi

It is easy to get online
It is a little slower than I would like (most coffee shops are faster, but it is AT&T)
It is stable (at least so far)
It really could be faster

I’ll check at a few other McDs around town and see if the connection is any better, or the speed faster. I hope so. The addition of free WiFi is great marketing. But if it is just a little better than a dial-up for speed . . .

Have a Great day all, I’ve got a lttle more paper to read.

By Dave Smith in Tucson Living

2 Responses to “Tucson McDonalds Now has Free WiFi”

Rachel Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 10:35 am
With a McD’s around the corner I will have to try this out.
Dave Smith Says:
January 26th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Hi Bear,

Yes, it is pretty cool and some are faster than others. But I hear it is much faster than it used to be under the pay system.

Have a great day

Dad